What can we expect from Prince Caspian?

William Moseley: In very simple terms, the first film was a children's Narnia. This film is going to be an adult Narnia, and I say that with every implication as in we're fighting adults this time, we're not fighting mythical creatures anymore. Even Tilda Swinton as an actress is definitely a mythical creature! We've got a whole army of humans to fight this time.

Narnia's changed. It's 1300 years later, it's not pastoral anymore, or idyllic. It's dark and nasty and all the creatures we once knew, who roamed the land freely, have been pushed into the forest and the woods and forced to live this closed lifestyle. It's about Caspian calling the kids back to save everyone from that and to bring this light, almost, back into it.

Of course we couldn't do it without Aslan and he helps out, so that's good. But I think this film is going to be very different for audiences, I have to say.

You guys are charged to bring the magic back to Narnia, but you were the least magical people in the first film...

WM: Right! I suppose we were the least, least magical out of everybody and that was sort of because we were going through it with the audience and taking the audience into this world - as we were seeing it, they were seeing it. In some ways Susan was everyone's cynical voice, you know, which was quite funny. But this time it's like, "Well, you did it last time, do it this time for us."

Everyone expects it of us. For Peter, especially, his journey has completely changed. He used to be a very nice, considerate, moral person. Very selfless. And this time he's quite selfish, I have to say, and he's quite angry and frustrated and thinks he deserves more. The film starts with this huge fight sequence where he's just angry and he's lashing out and nobody respects him as a High King in London, of course - they think he's a bit of a dick to be honest with you - and so he ends up going to Narnia and nobody respects him there, either, which he finds out just as he's thinking all his dreams have come true. He has to learn this very important lesson of humility and that shapes his judgements from then onwards.

It's also sad for him and Susan because this is their last journey into Narnia.

WM: It's really sad, actually. I remember doing the scene with Aslan at the end and I said to Andrew, "Should we be crying in this?" Anna and I both wanted to bawl out - it was pretty much the final scene we did of the whole film and he was like, "Um... No, just be very stoic and reserved." He was definitely right, because it's sad for the audience and sad to say goodbye to Narnia but it's also very hopeful. To some degree we're passing Narnia on to Caspian. It's almost like we're passing the torch and going on to something else. We're going back to England and doing what we have to do. We've learnt our lessons from Narnia.



Very nice of them to schedule it as one of the last scenes you shot.

WM: I know! It was one of the last scenes we did as the four of us and it was a really brilliant scene but it was a hard scene for me. I didn't really know where I was going with it at the time. I didn't know whether to play it sad or to play it hopeful or both, and for me at that point it was even like, Am I ever going to get another acting part again? [laughs] This is going to be it for me, forever! As an actor you're always thinking that. I figured you get to Anthony Hopkins' age and think, "Of course I'm going to get parts," but I even read interviews with him where he says he feels he'll never get another part again.

I guess that's the challenge of the profession you've thus far been able to avoid having started in a big franchise.

WM: I know, it's true. The only thing you can really hope for is just to keep going on the same line of quality. I really 100% believe, and I hope everyone else does too, that Narnia is a quality film and that it isn't just there to make a bunch of money. I think that's always been the drive of the director and the producer and all of the actors as well. So that's really what I want to do next; something of quality and something I can be proud of.

But perhaps something on a slightly smaller scale?

WM: Yeah, I think so! [laughs] I can't imagine myself doing something like Narnia again. I would love to do something with Ridley Scott, you know, some action/adventure or something like that. But I'd also love to do a dramatic piece. It's really just whatever you read and take to.

I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film, you know, I think he's very, very talented. I don't care that people say he's pretentious. So what? He's a good director, he can be pretentious. Paul Thomas Anderson I really like - I loved There Will Be Blood. I've always loved the Coen brothers. There's been a lot of depressing films out this year but they're bloody brilliant films. Depressing as hell, but bloody brilliant.



Do you have an idea of what you're going to be doing next?

WM: I've been reading loads of scripts but I really have no idea. For me, my taste isn't limited to magical films, whatever I read and I like I go up for and a lot of the time it's an American accent which can be quite trying, but I'm working on it as much as I can. Who knows what I'm going to do next, you know, there's this Roman Legion project that I love that I might be too young for. There are so many things involved.

Do you enjoy auditioning?

WM: Yeah, I love taking meetings because I love hearing what other people have got to say. I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories, if you just listen you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

Peter and Susan pass the torch onto Prince Caspian at the end of the movie - has it felt like that in real life? Obviously, Ben Barnes will be continuing with Skandar and Georgie on Voyage of the Dawn Treader...

WM: I do, actually, it does feel like I'm passing it on to him. There was always this joke on set about how his sword was bigger than mine and all this kind of stuff, and finally I passed my sword onto him and I think he knows what the responsibility is.

It sounds weird and ridiculous, because I know we're just actors in a film, but when you put so much of your heart into something and you spend so much time with someone - I even spent eighteen months auditioning for the part, let alone all the filming on top - you really do want to pass it over and to have them accept it with respect and I really think Ben Barnes will pull up trumps and if he doesn't then I think Skandar will knock him into shape and get him there!